Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano

Double-barreled McCarrick news perfectly captures accountability challenge
- May 30, 2019
Two major developments on the Theodore McCarrick saga neatly capture unanswered questions about accountability.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Vatican omitted part of pope’s crucial quote about McCarrick
- May 29, 2019
The Vatican communications office on Wednesday corrected the Italian transcript of Pope Francis’s comments about disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Earlier, it had omitted Francis’s claim that he didn’t remember if he had been told in 2013 of McCarrick’s penchant for sleeping with seminarians.

By Nicole Winfield
Palm Sunday and the spiritual logic for Francis’s sound of silence
- Apr 20, 2019
On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis came as close as he ever may to explaining the spiritual logic for his refusal to engage his critics.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Viganò may have made it harder to get to the truth on McCarrick
- Mar 12, 2019
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has aspired for more than a decade to be the great Vatican whistleblower, but he may actually have made it more difficult for U.S. bishops to pressure the Vatican to reveal what it knows in the Theodore McCarrick case.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Voicing ‘immense hope’ that Francis will act swiftly and honestly on abuse
- Feb 17, 2019
Will the pope’s sex abuse summit produce real results, or is it the usual bella figura of the Roman bureaucracy?

By Father Jeffrey F. Kirby
McCarrick becomes most senior cleric to be defrocked over abuse scandals
- Feb 16, 2019
In a widely expected yet still dramatic move, the Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has approved the removal of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state, colloquially known as “laicization” or “defrocking.”

By Crux Staff
Church envoy begs McCarrick to repent as abuse verdict nears
- Jan 14, 2019
The retired Vatican diplomat who accused Pope Francis of turning a blind eye to the alleged sexual misconduct of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is begging the American to publicly repent for his crimes for the good of the Catholic Church.

By Nicole Winfield
Papal shock waves in 2018 on migration, death penalty and more
- Dec 27, 2018
The list of actions and speeches from the pope that caused shock waves in 2018 was never-ending.

By Inés San Martín